Another highlight from #TICTeC 2025: rewatch a panel discussion on defending democracy with/from tech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDW5...

🎥 Watch @felice.bsky.social break down our new white paper on Public AI, introducing the innovative "Gradient of publicness of AI systems"—a strategic tool helping decision-makers assess AI interventions. Full recording available here: openfuture.eu/event/online...

💠 ‪The Public AI White Paper outlines how open and public-interest approaches to AI can be developed and institutionalized. buff.ly/RMpt4UU @bertelsmannst.bsky.social‬ @felice.bsky.social‬ @alek.bsky.social‬ @c-osborne.bsky.social‬

Don't miss our online event on Public AI. Join @felice.bsky.social @alek.bsky.social @avilarenata.bsky.social (from @okfn.bsky.social) and Albert Cañigueral (from @bsc-cns.bsky.social) for insights on AI governance. 📅 May 20, 15:00 CEST Info and free registration: openfuture.eu/event/online...

🤖 Join us May 20 for a discussion on Public AI. We will present a new white paper, commissioned by @bertelsmannst.bsky.social, with authors @felice.bsky.social and @alek.bsky.social, as well as industry experts. 📅 15:00 CEST | Free online event openfuture.eu/event/online...

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

I had the pleasure to read the dissertation. This is amazing book and highly recommended to anyone interested in the influence of universities in shaping visions of the future!

A very exciting day for open-source AI! We're releasing our biggest open source model yet -- OLMo 2 32B -- and it beats the latest GPT 3.5, GPT 4o mini, and leading open weight models like Qwen and Mistral. As usual, all data, weights, code, etc. are available.

This could affect thousands of European and UK students. Just one of many issues where we should see a massive public outcry of our universities denouncing these authoritarian measures and showing solidarity with those affected. But so far very little.

Ungebremst treibt der Konflikt den Sudan in den Hunger. Und es wird kaum darüber berichtet. Es droht eine Katastrophe, wie die Welt sie seit der großen Hungersnot in Äthiopien 1985 wohl nicht mehr gesehen hat. Damals starben bis zu eine Million Menschen. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Audrey Tang in Politico: “I’ve been working on bridging systems such as this for a decade now. It has been shown to effectively depolarize people, because it highlights the unlikely consensus, unlikely common ground, across people who otherwise have very different ideologies.”

Somehow I missed that last night, Jake Tapper said that the crowd was booing Tim Walz when he expressed his love for Springsteen. They were going "Bruuuuce!" How does someone from Philly not know that's what they were saying? Good grief.

Bertelsmann Stiftung have published an excellent visual explainer on bridging algorithms! https://bridging.reframetech.de/en Includes a side-by-side comparison of bridging and engagement-based approaches that does a great job of conveying how much less divisive bridging-based ranking could be.

Wie können Algorithmen die Debatten in sozialen Medien verbessern? Unser Kollege @felice.bsky.social erklärt es in diesem Video 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6D...

Wie sehen konstruktive Empfehlungsslgorithmen aus? Spannendes Konzept, schöne Aufbereitung!

📫 Heute bei @sz-dossier.de Digitalwende, von und mit @matthiaspunz.bsky.social, @larryg.bsky.social und @gabrielrinaldi.de: 📢 Exklusive Studie: Können Bridging-Algorithmen sachliche Diskurse auf Social Media fördern? @felice.bsky.social, @bertelsmannst.bsky.social, ordnet ein [1/3]

Soziale #Plattformen könnten viel gemeinwohlorientierter sein - wenn die Inhalte nach anderen Kriterien sortiert werden würden 💡 In einer neuen Web-Publikation zeigt @felice.bsky.social, wie Bridging-Algorithmen zu mehr Konsensorientierung beitragen könnten 👏

Diskurse in sozialen Medien sind stark von Polarisierung geprägt. Dabei könnten die Debatten mithilfe von sogenannten Bridging-Algorithmen konstruktiver werden. Wie sie genau funktionieren und wo sie bereits zum Einsatz kommen, zeigen wir in einer interaktiven Web-Publikation bridging.reframetech.de

Schön hier, oder? Aber hat @bsky.app wirklich Potenzial zu einem besseren digitalen Diskurs beizutragen? @felice.bsky.social und ich haben es für den @tspbackground.bsky.social untersucht: https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung/das-blaue-vom-himmel-welches-potenzial-blue-sky-wirklich-hat

In a draft research paper, Aviv Ovadya and @lukethorburn.com take a closer look at “bridging-based ranking” recommendation algorithms on social media.  Can we bring the benefits of offline bridging into spaces that are already governed by algorithms? bridging.systems

Erster Post zum ❤️-Projekt: Wie kann #KI gemeinwohlorientierten Organisationen unterstützen? Unsere heute erschienene Publikation gibt Einblicke in die Tech-Exploration sowie Erkenntnisse & Methoden weiter! Mehr dazu hier: www.reframetech.de

From the birdside to blue skies, elephants or P92? @cberger.bsky.social @felice.bsky.social and I have explored the potential of 1️⃣ @bsky.app 2️⃣Mastodon and 3️⃣P92 to serve for the common good: https://upgradedemocracy.de/moving-on-from-twitter-weve-looked-at-three-alternatives-to-help-you-decide/

Genug von den Diskussionen um Facebook, Twitter, TikTok und Co? Gemeinsam mit @lotti.bsky.social und Partner:innen haben wir uns kleinere Plattformen und ihr Potenzial einmal genauer angeschaut: https://upgradedemocracy.de/impulse/potenziale-von-small-tech-was-koennen-wir-von-den-kleinen-lernen/